[93548] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Fri Dec 1 12:45:48 2006
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
Cc: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>,
NANOG Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:10:54 +0100
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0612011704230.271@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net> (Chris
L. Morrow's message of "Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:04:38 +0000 (GMT)")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Chris L. Morrow:
>> | 6. Transition
>> |
>> | The scheme described in this document allows a gradual transition
>> | from 2-octet AS numbers to 4-octet AS numbers. One can upgrade one
>> | Autonomous System or one BGP speaker at a time.
>>
>> Routers on stub ASs don't need upgrading at all, for instance.
>
> but filter lists and such I imagine might :(
Only if you want to keep your fine-grained filters, which shouldn't be
a problem over the next few years. From a purely BGP 4 perspective,
the transition looks like a new tier 1 ISP entering the stage.
(But if more than one of your peers switch, you better upgrade as
well.)
